Free Land for Whom? Mapping Land Acquisition and Dispossession under the Homestead Act, 1863-1912

poster / demo / art installation
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  1. 1. Julius Wilm

    Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media - George Mason University, German Historical Institute (GHI)

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The poster presents a geospatial database and dynamic web mapping project on homesteaders in the US West from 1863 to 1912. Mapping statistics on land claims (and their success and failure) at the level of local land districts in combination with complaints by unsuccessful claimants as well as military and congressional reports on squatting on Indian land, the project aims to create a birds eye view of the Homestead Act with a particular focus on the law’s accessibility to people of color and it’s entanglement with Indian displacement. The poster discusses the project’s overall aims, its current status, as well as conceptual and technical challenges.

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Conference Info

In review

ADHO - 2020
"carrefours / intersections"

Hosted at Carleton University, Université d'Ottawa (University of Ottawa)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July 20, 2020 - July 25, 2020

475 works by 1078 authors indexed

Conference cancelled due to coronavirus. Online conference held at https://hcommons.org/groups/dh2020/. Data for this conference were initially prepared and cleaned by May Ning.

Conference website: https://dh2020.adho.org/

References: https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/

Series: ADHO (15)

Organizers: ADHO

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